他者视域——宇文所安的中西阐释学比较

中国学者在从事中西阐释学比较研究时,理应时刻关注西方汉学家的相关研究成果。文章试从汉学家宇文所安的研究中找寻一些对中国学者的启示与借鉴。     

论《肖申克的救赎》中的景观化叙事技巧

《肖申克的救赎》是一部不同于斯蒂芬?金其他作品的小说,一反他惯有的恐怖诡谲风格,是一部带有传奇色彩的写实主义小说,讲述了一个发生在高墙内的故事。如何在监狱这样一个特殊的舞台上演一出精彩的故事,这是斯蒂芬?金必须首要解决的问题。这部作品无疑是成功的,而它的成功与小说的叙事策略———景观化叙事密不可分。“景观化叙事”一词的灵感源自奈保尔关于“空间叙事”的概念,因其在叙事空间上的狭小而得名。《肖申克的救赎》在叙事空间、叙事聚焦和叙事语言上的选择,都成功地将空泛的“人性”主题缩小到有限可控的范围内,把不可捉摸的善恶具象至真实可感,让本来只一方天地的监狱成了一座包罗万象的微缩社会。     

A Warm Reading of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Stephen Leacock(1869-1944) is one of the founding parents of Canadian letters and literature. In the early 20thcentury, his reputation as a humorist and a political economist was not limited by the boundaries of Canada but spread around the world. As one of his works, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town has attracted world-wide admiration. It is a series of vignettes dramatizing the comedy of day-to-day life in Mariposa. It is bathed in the warm sunshine for all of us to laugh at as one of us remembers the little towns we might have known or come from. As a matter of fact, Leacock employs several techniques in his writing for humorous effect. This paper elaborates on the auther and the work, and makes an analysis on the character—Smith.     

谱写英雄式的赞歌——论《红色英勇勋章》和《海上扁舟》里的英雄主义情节

美国作家斯蒂芬·克莱思是美国自然主义时期代表作家。但大多数文章讨论的是的克莱恩作品中的自然主义和存在主义,他的《红色英勇勋章》和《海上扁舟》里的人物都表现出了英勇的一面。本文将论述两篇文章中共有的英雄主义情节。     

The Battle of 42nd Street

This essay discusses the New York Public Library’s (NYPL)’s unique importance and chronicles the history and execution of the NYPL plan to remodel the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 42nd Street (also known as the Central Library). The plan would have sent millions of books to a storage facility in New Jersey and resulted in the sale of several NYPL branches to finance the remodeling of the building on 42nd Street. Not surprisingly these plans were greeted with alarm and galvanized efforts of librarians, citizens, bookworms, activists, and writers to halt the Central Library Plan. The essay concludes with some thoughts about the importance of transparency in the public library milieu.     

Harry Potter,Riding the Bullet and the Future of Books: Key Issues in the Anglophone Book Business

This paper reviews the current status of the Anglophone (Anglo-American) publishing business and draws some comparisons with publishing in other languages. It then critically reviews the impact of the Harry Potter phenomenon and the questionable progress of e-books in the trade sector, using the example of Stephen King’s Riding the Bullet. It also comments on Amazon’s introduction of the Kindle e-book reader.     

《青年艺术家的画像》中斯蒂芬的宗教心路历程

《青年艺术家的画像》是二十世纪现代主义文学大师詹姆斯·乔伊斯（1882—1941）的自传体小说。这部小说主要描写都柏林青年斯蒂芬是如何试图摆脱妨碍他发展的各种因素最终成为一名青年艺术家的故事。通过对斯蒂芬宗教态度的转变进行分析,来揭示其走向艺术与美这条道路的必然性。     

On Naturalism in Stephen Crane’s The Open Boat

Stephen Crane is one of the greatest figures in the history of American literature and his novella The Open Boat is wide-ly known by people all over the world as a representative work of Naturalism. Th...